Thresh vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Thresh
based on 4,380 Thresh vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Nami
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Win Against Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Thresh vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several valuable Thresh against Nami matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champions. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nami..
Thresh typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Nami. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Nami
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Who is Better, Thresh or Nami?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when playing against Nami, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes an ok counter for Nami.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Nami, when facing one another, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Namias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Nami. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh in order to counter Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Nami. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Thresh versus Nami build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Nami than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Nami as Thresh, Thresh players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Thresh vs Nami counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.8% winrate overall.
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